Steven M Bierig

Steven M Bierig, operating as Steven M. Bierig Attorney-Arbitrator-Mediator, is a sole proprietor based in Deerfield, Illinois, providing neutral arbitration, fact-finding, and mediation services to federal agencies as a prime contractor under full-and-open purchase orders, with no set-aside designations across his entire footprint. Bierig has been registered in SAM.gov since 2004 and operates under primary NAICS codes 111700 (Offices of Lawyers) and related professional-services classifications (PSC Support-Professional: Legal accounts for 36 of his 60 awards).

The customer concentration is heavily skewed toward the Internal Revenue Service, which accounts for 27 awards and $70 thousand in combined potential value — roughly 45% of Bierig's total award count and 40% of his combined potential value. The National Mediation Board is his second-largest customer by award count with 12 awards and $5 thousand combined potential value, but the Federal Aviation Administration's Southwestern Region ranks second by dollar magnitude with 2 awards and $24 thousand combined potential value. The Environmental Protection Agency Region 5, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons Federal Correctional Institution Pekin round out the active agency set. Across these customers, the top five by award count represent 75% of all awards.

Bierig's work is exclusively direct federal contracting with no subcontract footprint. Representative contracts include a $6.2 thousand firm-fixed-price purchase order awarded by the IRS on September 1, 2024, for fact-finding services and arbitration under a collective bargaining agreement running through August 31, 2025 (work performed in Riverwoods, Illinois); a $975 purchase order from the FAA dated August 27, 2026, for neutral evaluator services at a pre-arbitration review hearing via Zoom; and a $6.45 thousand IRS arbitration services purchase order awarded December 7, 2022, with completion by March 7, 2023. Purchase orders from IRS and FAA historically range from $850 to $12.4 thousand per award.

Activity is sparse and episodic. Bierig received one award in 2019, two in 2022, three in 2023, one in 2024, and two in 2026, with combined potential value across all 60 awards totaling $176 thousand and $151 thousand obligated (86% execution rate). One award with $975 potential value reaches ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months. His capability footprint is narrowly specialized: impartial third-party neutral services (arbitration, fact-finding, mediation) supporting federal agencies' resolution of labor grievances, taxpayer disputes, and workplace conflicts under collective bargaining agreements.